Education: Anyone Can Learn

In Spokane's school district 81, a handful of children from 5 to 24
years sat in the waiting room of the state-operated Health and Guidance
Center. They were not normal children. Only a few had I.Q.s over 60;
some could not walk or talk very well. Three years ago in Spokane, such
retarded children would have been written off as "uneducatable." Now
each child would see a team of doctors, take a series of tests, and
then be educated by the State of Washington to the limit of his
ability. For the parents sitting in the waiting room last week,...